Hi thar,
I'm looking for relatively cheap dedicated/VPS servers offers for hosting more tor exit nodes that can be paid for using Bitcoin. Minimal connection speed I'm interested in is 100mbit. I've seen some offers here and there but maybe I'm missing something. I'd like fellow node operators to share some insight on the topic.
I find the infos currently available on TOR project wiki etc little bit rusty. It'd be ideal to compile an article on the topic, if people can share their experiences I'd like to donate my time for this purpose that methinks other will find helpful if one wants to host a tor relay pretty much anonymously.
I for one can share a positive opinion on hosting with "Baltic Servers", an LT based company. I'm running 2 exits and 2 relays there for 31 days at the moment without many hassle (you can find 'em by looking for 'netdive' on torstatus.blutmagie.de or on Atlas). Current average net troughoutput is rx/tx 274.56 Mbit/s / 265.90 Mbit/s and the abuse e-mails are being forwarded.
Cheers, -- Netdiver
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I personally use ZappieHost - contact them, use a promo code to get it down to $2.50 a month. Ask them to set reverse DNS, inform them you're making a Tor relay and to forward on abuse emails, and I get ~2MB/s with them. The bandwidth is 100GB/month, but it's $1 extra a month for an extra 100GB, so maybe add 900GB more storage if you want. Regards, Billy
On 07/11/2015 23:14, Monoko Satou wrote:
Hi thar,
I'm looking for relatively cheap dedicated/VPS servers offers for hosting more tor exit nodes that can be paid for using Bitcoin. Minimal connection speed I'm interested in is 100mbit. I've seen some offers here and there but maybe I'm missing something. I'd like fellow node operators to share some insight on the topic.
I find the infos currently available on TOR project wiki etc little bit rusty. It'd be ideal to compile an article on the topic, if people can share their experiences I'd like to donate my time for this purpose that methinks other will find helpful if one wants to host a tor relay pretty much anonymously.
I for one can share a positive opinion on hosting with "Baltic Servers", an LT based company. I'm running 2 exits and 2 relays there for 31 days at the moment without many hassle (you can find 'em by looking for 'netdive' on torstatus.blutmagie.de or on Atlas). Current average net troughoutput is rx/tx 274.56 Mbit/s / 265.90 Mbit/s and the abuse e-mails are being forwarded.
Cheers, -- Netdiver
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On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:14:27 +0000 Monoko Satou netdiver@sigaint.org wrote:
I'm looking for relatively cheap dedicated/VPS servers offers for hosting more tor exit nodes that can be paid for using Bitcoin. Minimal connection speed I'm interested in is 100mbit. I've seen some offers here and there but maybe I'm missing something. I'd like fellow node operators to share some insight on the topic.
flokinet.is advertises itself to be tor-friendly, accepts bitcoin, and claims that you can signup without providing any detailed contact info. I didn't pay with bitcoin and I didn't try to hide my identity, but the options appear to be there.
The exit node 'nibbana' (025B66CEBC070FCB0519D206CF0CF4965C20C96E) is hosted there. Don't assume that node's bandwidth is the max that they can provide; iirc it's one of their lower-end VPS options and I haven't spent time optimizing or anything (and it's new). Their VPSes are supposed to have 100mbps and the dedicated boxes are listed as 1gbps.
My experience has been fine so far with them.
Hello,
I find the infos currently available on TOR project wiki etc little bit rusty.
it's a wiki so feel free to help keeping it up to date (and cleaning it up :) )
I for my part am updating the page every time I gain some new insights (exit running for more than 6 weeks so there is some experience how the provider reacts to abuse mails).
flokinet.is advertises itself to be tor-friendly
I asked flokinet about exit nodes and what they consinder to be fair use when running the VPS in romania (which are advertised as "traffic flat"):
"yes of course you can use our VPS to run a tor exit node. However we recommend to use our dedicated server to do so for reaching higher traffic amounts.
We consider 1-2TB traffic as fair, if you want more please order a dedicated server."
thats what stopped me. the dedicated servers only have 10 tb traffic or 2 Tb if located in iceland.
On 08.11.2015 03:31, Andrew Deason wrote:
On Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:14:27 +0000 Monoko Satou netdiver@sigaint.org wrote:
I'm looking for relatively cheap dedicated/VPS servers offers for hosting more tor exit nodes that can be paid for using Bitcoin. Minimal connection speed I'm interested in is 100mbit. I've seen some offers here and there but maybe I'm missing something. I'd like fellow node operators to share some insight on the topic.
flokinet.is advertises itself to be tor-friendly, accepts bitcoin, and claims that you can signup without providing any detailed contact info. I didn't pay with bitcoin and I didn't try to hide my identity, but the options appear to be there.
The exit node 'nibbana' (025B66CEBC070FCB0519D206CF0CF4965C20C96E) is hosted there. Don't assume that node's bandwidth is the max that they can provide; iirc it's one of their lower-end VPS options and I haven't spent time optimizing or anything (and it's new). Their VPSes are supposed to have 100mbps and the dedicated boxes are listed as 1gbps.
My experience has been fine so far with them.
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